California has not built significant new water infrastructure since the 1970s, when CEQA was first adopted. Under CEQA, any stakeholder can use courts to hold up projects nearly indefinitely based on objections to the projects’ environmental impact reports. Due to the deteriorating condition of the state’s basic infrastructure as a result of CEQA, the governor and state...
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